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As far as I'm concerned, the distinction between smoking and, say, drinking coffee or alcohol, is that they affect only you, but smoking affects everyone who is forced to share that space in any way, even just walking through. I don't like the govt telling you what to do either, but one of its primary functions is to protect us from each other. If everyone cared about their effect on the people around them, we wouldn't need laws like this one. However, without the government there to enforce "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose", people just swing indiscriminately because they don't care how many people they hit, so to speak.
I hope this passes. It doesn't regulate ingestion of the chemical itself in public, just whether or not you can force your chemical suicide of choice on everyone else. People who need their nicotine fix when there are others around should try chewing nicotine gum or wearing a patch. They still get their fix, and the rest of us don't have our health destroyed by it, esp. since so many people are allergic up to the point of it being deadly to them, and so many of us are on medication that when mixed with tobacco smoke can cause strokes and heart attacks. Win win.
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